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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

«The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.»
«The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Soul | Keywords: leans, weakest
«Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement»
«To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death bids expectation rise»
«Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.»
«And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.»
«The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.»
«Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.»
«She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their»
«And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree»

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